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No. 456,213. Patented Ju1y 21, 1891.

` NITED STATES GEORGE XV. BOLL, OF MOUN" HO PE, AND LEwIs M. REED, on PATTERSON, KANSAS,-

FEED-TROUGH.

SPECISATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,213, dated July 21, 1891.

' Application filed August 30, 1890. Serial No. 363,481. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE lV. BOLL, of Mount Hope, Sedgwick county,I and LEWIS M. REED, ot' Patterson, Harvey county, Kansas, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feed-Troughs; and we do declare the following to be 'a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others io skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specitication.

My invention has relation to improvements in means for feeding stock; and the Objectis to provide means for feeding small animals, such as pigs, when either by accident or design they are taken from the mother before being weaned from taking their natural nourishment.

Our invention consists in the novel construction of the parts and-their combination, as will be hereinafter fully described, and as particularly pointedA out in the claim.

XVe have fully and clearly illustrated our invention in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a view of ourv invention set. up in operative condition. Fig. 2 is a. transverse vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. e is a bottom view of the trough or feed-holder. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of the device.

A designates the holding-frame, consisting ot` two uprights 1 and 2, connected at their lower portion by a substantial cross-piece 3, rigidly secured to the uprights at the ends. The ,uprights are extended a distance above the top of the trough, and inthe top ends is detachably arranged a bar or rod 4, on one end of which are screw-threads, to which is fitted a nut 5, which keeps the uprights from spreading at theV top, and by means of the adj Listing-nut the trough may be clamped in between the uprights and held from being disturbed by the feeding animals. Across the inner face of each upright are a series or numwith each other, substantially as shown; 5o These slots take the flanges on the trough and sustain and hold it in position at any height to which it may be placed in the uprights as maybe suited to the size of the pigs to be fed.

It willgbe apparent that the trough maybe removed or adj usted-from either side, the slots being open at their ends, as shown.

B designates the feedingtrough, composed of metal, which may be either cast or malleable. This trough is made rectangular and of 6o such size as may be necessary to hold feed for the number of animals to be fed, and is provided with a hinged lid or cover 7, held down by any proper fastening'. On each end of the trough is rigidly secured or formed a plate S, which fits in the slots in the nprights and serves to hold the trough in connection with the trame. The bottom of the trough is formed so as to carry the contents thereof in the direction of the escapes when the animal 7o is feeding. Any proper shape of bottom to accomplish this object may be adopted. XVe have shown the bottom as formed convex in the longitudinal central portion and inclined side portion, with the angles at the ends filled by inwardly-inclined parts, so as to direct the liquid feed at all times toward the feed-pieces. At the sides of the bottom in the inclined parts are a numberof apertures 9, which have short pipes secured theiein, constituting 8o means for having the mouth-pieces arranged thereon. These short pipes may be threaded on their outer surfaces, or they may be form ed' with an enlarged rim-flange, over which the elastic end of the mouth-piece may be placed 8 5 and secured.

The letters C designate the mouth-pieces, consisting of elastic tubes having'their upper ends formed to iitover and on the shortpipes projectingfromthetrough,andhavingattheir 9o lower ends a small slit or aperture, through which the food may be drawn by suction into the mouth of the little animal needing the nourishment.

The frame of the trough is secured to the oor of the pen or feed-house by means of any suitable fastening. We have shown it seber of open-endedslots 6,0ppositely aligning cured by means ot' an angle-iron 10. The bottoni erossqiiece 3 is mode high enough to pred ventthe animals from crawling over itand under the trough. Y

The uses of our invention may be readily perceived from the foregoing description, but are here brieli y stated. The feed is placed in the trough and the mouth of the little ani mal given the mouth-piece, when by the neturel instincts of the animal it almost invariably proceeds to suck the food from theniouthpiece, and whenthe animels greed is satisfied it relinquishes its hold and goes away, or, if needs be, it muy be teken away before it gorges itself to repletion.

Having thus described our invention, ex plained its uses, and stated its operation as required bythe statute, We new proceed to 45eme particularly point out and distinctly claim the parte und combinations which we believe to be novel, und for which we ask Letters Patent for, es follows:

An adjustable feed-trough consisting of uprights, each formed with a series oi' openended slots, L box or trough proper provided with end flanges to enter seid slots, and u clainping-rod connecting the uprights, substentially as described.

In testimony whereof we alix our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE lV. BOLL. LEVIS M. REED. Ntnessesz L. A. IIAMLIN, JAS. F. HAMLIN. 

